Mashable: How to get a job at Microsoft

Looking to join the 88,000 people working for Microsoft? The company, even through tough economic times, is so big that it’s always hiring.

Mashable this week has a nice walk-through for landing a job at the world’s largest software company. Here’s an excerpt:

Many recruiters use keyword searches to pull up resumes — but that doesn’t mean every other word needs to be “motivated” or “team player.” Be sure to list the names of certain technologies and programming languages you’ve used in each project you include. This will allow a recruiter to see what you know and how well you know it.

When putting together your resume, think about how you affected your environments and less about the basic facts of what you did. “Often, applicants write their resumes like a list of job tasks, but it’s even more important to call out your major achievements and the difference you made: what you did, how you did it, and why it mattered,” said Gretchen Ledgard, communications manager for Microsoft Recruiting.